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MOTIVE [6 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2017-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
DEF

Ce qui porte, incite à agir.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
  • Translation (General)
CONT

... send a copy of the decision with the reasons therefor to the joint planning committee and to the Minister.

CONT

Recommendation with the reasons therefore.

Key term(s)
  • with the reasons therefore

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

[...] communiquer [la décision], motifs à l'appui, au comité mixte et au ministre.

CONT

recommandation motivée.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

That which moves or prompts a person to a particular course of action, or is seen by him as the ultimate purpose or end he seeks to achieve by that action.

OBS

motive: It is distinguishable from intention, which is the more immediate foreseen end to which he directs his acts. Thus, A may intend to kill B, with the motive of getting B's money .... Motive accordingly supplies the reason for an intended act.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

mobile : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Private Law
DEF

The reason which leads the mind to desire a result.

CONT

The term "motive" is unfortunately ambiguous. That feeling which internally urges or pushes a person to do or refrain from doing an act is an emotion, and is of course evidential towards his doing or not doing the act.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit privé
DEF

Raisons, tant de fait que de droit, qui justifient la décision du juge.

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
DEF

Subjective reason or personal motive for which a party enters into a juridical act.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
OBS

En droit civil.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de obligaciones (derecho civil)
DEF

Motivo o razón para actuar.

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Record 6 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
OBS

if the set is understood to be a "--" in itself, in terms of the ordered pitch relations which it presents

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
OBS

chaque -- se trouve accompagné d'un accord contenant autant de sons qu'il en retient lui-même. Ces accords sont [ déduits de la série.]

Spanish

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